Excerpts from Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places:
“Daily meals with family, friends, and guests, acts of hospitality every one, are the most natural and frequent settings for working out the personal and social implications of salvation.” (214)
“Meals take time, meals are inefficient, meals are not “productive.” And so meals are streamlined, made efficient, individualized—the personal and relational and communal and abbreviated as much as possible.” (216)
“So what do we do? We take the meal with as gospel seriousness as we take our Scriptures; we take the kitchen to be as essential in the work of salvation as is the sanctuary…The meal is the focal practice for reenacting in our dailiness all that is involved in the Eucharistic meal in which we participate in the sacrifice of Christ for the salvation of the world.” (220)
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